Thanks for your reply Mark. I note that users have been receiving various different messages from Intuit on this question via webchat and over the phone etc so there is quite a lot of anxiety about what will actually happen. I assume your response is the official Intuit line on what will happen and that it can be 100% relied upon an publicised as such.

QBO is not a viable alternative for many of my clients due to the significant lack of functionality, slow method of operating, lack of reporting options, inability to properly work multi-window and tendency to fall out of sync. When QBO can mirror QBD function-by-function I will happily join the argument that it is just as good, until that day it cant be. I dont get why Intuit didnt take what is a great product in QBD and simply mirror in on QBO.